After thousands of years' development, China's micro-sculpture works gradually formed a number of relatively concentrated central production sites in the middle of Qing Dynasty, and each central production site maintained local style and characteristics in theme and form. After the 1970s, with the convenience of transportation and the development of information technology, micro-sculpture artists from all over the world frequently exchanged ideas, learned from each other's strong points, infiltrated each other and constantly exchanged technologies. There are many new schools and unique styles. Common ones are nuclear carving, bone carving, ivory carving, micro-painting carving and Guo Yueming's micro-carving of Yueming. , each leading the way, the artistic style is relatively independent.
With the progress of the times and the development of science and technology, sophisticated tools are constantly being manufactured. With the emergence and discovery of some new materials that can be used for micro-carving, there will be more micro-carving technology. At the same time, many micro-carving works we see now are not necessarily created by a single micro-carving technique, but by two or more carving techniques. Proper use of two or more carving techniques as theme clothing will produce gorgeous effects.
Micro-carving is a new independent branch of carving techniques, and there will be more and more excellent works to enrich the carving categories and bring people more beautiful enjoyment.
Works of Shi Feng, a Master of Micro Sculpture
Calligraphy and painting art is the essence of world culture. Micro-carving includes round carving, plane carving and round carving.
Sculpture pays attention to plastic arts. Plane sculpture pays attention to the art of painting and calligraphy, and micro-carving of painting and calligraphy is also called the art of knife and pen. It uses a knife instead of a pen and needs a solid foundation in painting and calligraphy. Micro-sculpture is divided into soft and hard factions. Soft carving is carved on soft materials such as ivory hair, and hard carving is carved on jade agate porcelain with hardness of 7. Relatively speaking, hard micro-carving is more difficult and the knife control is stable and powerful. Otherwise, it is the easiest to slide the knife between nano users, and it is necessary to force the knife into it and stabilize it. You must have a solid knife control ability to achieve heart-to-heart communication. In 20 12, his oil painting "Mona Lisa" carved on 4MMX5MM ivory tablets set the world's smallest oil painting record.
Willard Wigan, an international micro-sculpture artist and his works
Willard Wigan of Birmingham, England, is an internationally renowned sculptor. He is the creator of the smallest sculpture and miniature sculpture in the world. A work often takes several months. It is said that in order to avoid shaking hands, you have to choose between your own heartbeat every time you cut a knife. He carved out rice, sand and sugar with a micro scalpel and put it in a needle. His works include:
Works of Chushan Micro-painting Sculpture School
Chushan micro-painting sculpture is a genre of micro-painting, which is a new technology developed on the basis of micro-painting. Most of the works are based on colorful stones such as colorful Shoushan Stone. In addition to the composition method of scattered perspective, the focus perspective method is also used to carve local pictures, so that the observer can be fixed on a foothold and carve important images truthfully, while deliberately blurring unimportant things outside the horizon. This hazy freehand brushwork is also one of the artistic features of Chushan's micro-painting sculpture. It is a new exploration of Chushan's micro-painting sculpture to condense the changes of time and space, temperature difference and even moving objects in the square inch of the work by three-dimensional visualization. His works have a wide range of themes and profound implications, and each of them reveals a distinct personality.
The main work includes:
Goddess carving, three mountains, Millennium, moonlight on the riverside, Buddha's palm, years carving, Nanjing city in the ten dynasties, autumn moon in Emei, ancient city of Longpan dialect in Huju, Emei in the foggy month, Bai Mudan health bottle, dreaming of the smoky waterway in the south of the Yangtze River, fairy rocks in the evening, moonlight eyes, I want to see the ancient town for youth and mountains.
Chen Zhongsen's Micro-sculpture Works
Since the 1960s, Chen Zhongsen has devoted himself to micro-carving, striving for perfection in micro-carving, and his works are "micro" until they need a magnifying glass to see clearly. He is good at micro-carving, but also at figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, and even colored ink micro-painting. He also saw small Shoushan stone micro-carving and micro-carving. Calligrapher Qi Gong presented the title of "Iron Pen". He advocated that "art lies in the micro".
Zhao Yiying's Micro-sculpture Works
Shoushan stone, Bahrain stone micro-carving simulation pot 2mm.